History Main / OurTimeMachineIsDifferent

* The... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFfwY1FJjmI thing]] from ''Film/TheScienceOfSleep''... [[MindScrew maybe]].

* The... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFfwY1FJjmI thing]] from ''TheScienceOfSleep''... [[MindScrew maybe]].

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* ''TheEntOfEternity'' by IsaacAsimov has "kettles", which are elevator-like pods, allowing Eternals (people who have been taken outside of Time) to travel "upwhen" and "downwhen" along the timestream. Similar to elevators, the kettles can't travel before and after the existence of Eternity, as massive temporal field created in the 27th century. However, a special one-way kettle is created that can used to send a person to a century prior to that.

* The point-and-click adventure DayOfTheTentacle has a toilet as a time machine.

* The Hot Tub in ''HotTubTimeMachine.'' Seems obvious, right?

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* The island in ''{{Lost}}''
* ''Double The Fist'' season 2 had the Timesaw, a chainsaw which saws holes in spacetime.
* The TARDIS from ''Series/DoctorWho'', it's shaped like a Police box, is BiggerOnTheInside, and has loads of other bizarre uses besides traveling through time and space.
** The Whoniverse includes Time Rings (old series) and Vortex Manipulators (new series), which fit on the traveller's wrist. Neither device is a comfortable way to travel.

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* The time machine in ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' has a good deal of quartz in it and just a touch of [[AlienGeometries alien geometry.]]
* In Moorcock's ''Behold the Man'' the time traveler floats in a spherical, fluid-filled capsule, which rolls to a bumpy stop on arrival. It's apparently a one-way trip.

* The TARDIS from ''DoctorWho'', it's shaped like a Police box, is BiggerOnTheInside, and has loads of other bizarre uses besides traveling through time and space.

* As noted by ''IrregularWebcomic'', time machines appear in all sorts of weird forms... mainly because, while we have some sort of general understanding about how other vehicles' shapes affect how useful they are (aircraft need wings or rotors or [[CoolAirship envelopes]], boats need hulls, etc), no one has the slightest idea what shape makes a more efficient time machine. (They use the DoctorWho model.)

* ''BackToTheFuture'''s [=DeLorean=], which is really the inspiration for this trope. The film's creators even justify this by saying that it makes more sense to have a time machine that you can take with you, rather than one that just sits at your destination. Plus the stainless steel construction makes the [[TechnoBabble flux dispersal]]- <Voom!>

* The Hot Tub in Hot Tub Time Machine. Seems kind of obvious right?

* The point-and-click adventure ''Dayofthetentacle'' has a toilet as a time machine.
* In ''PrinceofPersiaSandsofTime'' the titular prince uses a dagger to rewind time.

* The point-and-click adventure ''Day of the tentacle´´ has a toilet as a time machine.
* In ''Prince of Persia Sands of Time'' the titular prince uses a dagger to rewind time.

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* HGWells' ''TheTimeMachine'': It's still a pretty unique sort, after all this time. The time machine "isolates" itself from the passage of time by somehow switching time with one of the other three dimensions. The user remains outside of time while all around him the world runs forward or backward through time at an accelerated pace.

* [[spoiler:The island in]] ''{{Lost}}''

* The TARDIS from DoctorWho, it's shaped like a Police box, is BiggerOnTheInside, and has loads of other bizarre uses besides traveling through time and space.
** Actually, saying it's shaped like a Police box is like saying clay is shaped like a sculpture. The only reason The Doctor's TARDIS is shaped like a Police box is because it got "stuck" in that shape - otherwise it would/could be shaped like anything, as other [=TARDISes=] have shown throughout the show's history.

** The time-traveling ''steam locomotive'' at the end of ''BackToTheFuture Part III''.
*** Did we mention that the steam locomotive could ''fly''?
* The phone booth from ''BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' is an inversion of this trope, being a time machine disguised as a phone booth.
** Which they totally stole from DoctorWho. [[TotallyRadical Bogus]]!
*** And it's ''smaller'' on the inside! Nyaah!
* ''Primer''.

* ''{{Singularity}}'' has the TMD that can age and renew objects, but for time travel you need either a Rift (a time portal into the past/future, that you enlarge and traverse with the TMD), a Chrono-wave (a massive shockwave that transports everything in its path through time) or the TMD used in conjunction with a source of unlimited power (like the Singularity) to create a rift. Also, travel can only happen between 1955 and 2010 at specific dates, for reasons explained in the plot. There are also some small "ghost imprints", scenes from the past that bleed into the future due to your location's temporal instability.

* One Halloween episode of ''TheSimpsons'' had Homer accidentally create a time-travelling toaster, subverting this trope by turning a mundane object into a time machine.

* [[spoiler:The island in ''{{Lost}}'']]

* HGWells' ''TheTimeMachine''.

* Primer.

** Actually, saying it's shaped like a Police box is like saying clay is shaped like a sculpture. The only reason The Doctor's TARDIS is shaped like a Police box is because it got "stuck" in that shape - otherwise it would/could be shaped like anything, as other TARDISes have shown throughout the show's history.